In addition to the gold bullion both of domestic and foreign production, and the foreign and domestic gold coin deposited, old material in the form of jewelry, bars, old plate, etc., was received containing gold of the value of $2,265,219.85.
The marked increase in the deposits of gold was at the assay office at New York, the value of the foreign gold bullion and coin deposited at that institution during the year being $30,621,006.95, exclusive of fine bars of its own manufacture, of the value of $7,933,743.98, imported and re-deposited.
The value of the foreign gold bullion deposited was $22,571,328.70, against $4,317,068.27 in 1886.
The value of the foreign gold coin received and melted was $9,896,512.28, against $5,673,565.04 in the year preceding.
The value of the total deposits of gold during the fiscal year 1887, including all re-deposits as above cited, was $83,416,779.40, against $49,606,534.65 in 1886, an excess in the year 1887 of $33,810,244.75.
The value of silver bullion of foreign extraction deposited at the mints during the year 1887 was $1,457,406.01.
The value of foreign silver coin deposited during the year was $350,598.86, against $812,664.50 in the preceding year.
The value of the United States silver coin deposited (calculated at the coining rate in silver dollars), not including trade-dollars, was $768,739.32, most of which consisted of worn and uncurrent silver coins transferred from the Treasury of the United States for recoinage.
Trade-dollars were received mostly by transfer from the Treasury of the United States and melted. The bullion contained 5,837,791.87 standard ounces, of the coinage value in standard silver dollars of $6,793,066.89.
Earnings and Expenditures of the Mints and Assay Offices.